Responses of neurons in the rat's ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus to amplitude-modulated tones

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2905-2914

  Zhang, Huiming ^a   Kelly, Jack B ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CALIBRATION; COCHLEA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

EID: 33751536864     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00481.2006     Document Type: Article

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